What does the future hold for DEVONthink?

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Ideas for exported summary reports in tabular format keep flowing. Take for example Frederiko’s latest:

Export an index of annotations to a numbers spreadsheet

This script will export an index of annotations and source documents to an already open Numbers spreadsheet. It works best with any of the annotation templates in this thread: [url]Make an Annotation with Links, Notes, Tags v2] The spreadsheet has 5 columns: a) The date of the source document or annotation b) The name of the source document or annotation c) The page number of the source document referenced by the annotation. d) The comments, if any to the annotation. 3) The referenced sour…

Maybe some future DEVONthink could have a graphical interface to define report formats and save the defined format as a script (something more robust than AppleScript – maybe Swift?) for tweaking and customization. I’m thinking of this as a FileMaker-like (and definitely FileMaker-lite ) interface where we can drag database properties (name, dates, comments, tags) onto a grid and define an output report. So, in the case of Frederiko’s script, instead of relying on Numbers to do the formatting, the grid could have been defined in the DEVONreport definition pane.

Then, having saved that report definition, we could attach them to Smart Groups, or a parent group, of a search box, and do an on-the-fly report for the records in that search or selection.